Willing Executioners

Published: July 19, 1998

To the Editor:

Max Frankel is correct that I ''did not originate the theory of collective ethnic guilt'' because, contrary to his assertion, I have never espoused such a view. In ''Hitler's Willing Executioners,'' I write: ''I reject categorically the notion of collective guilt. . . . Not collective groups but only individuals are to be deemed guilty and only for their own individual deeds.''